Givitas for Leaders
Join a free, invitation-only network of leaders interested in building and sustaining positive business practices and workplaces.
Ask questions, get the answers you need, and then pay it forward to someone else.
Givitas is Kinder, Gentler Social Networking
Givitas for Leaders is a community of people interested in exchanging help on topics related to positive business, collaborative culture, and leadership. This group is available to experienced and new managers.
In this group, members have learned how to:
- Manage up
- Manage down
- Teach ethics to executives
- Inspire generosity in their teams
- Grow their networks
- Choose vendors
Why Givitas Works
Job satisfaction, career success, and happiness in general are all results of having a strong network that allows you to get help when you need it and offer help in return.
We didn’t make this stuff up–our technology is inspired by academic research on generosity, knowledge sharing, and asking for help done by two of our co-founders:
- Dr. Adam Grant of Wharton in his bestselling business book, Give and Take
- Dr. Wayne Baker at the University of Michigan in his book All You Have to Do is Ask.
- Givitas is free!
- Givitas makes it easy to ask for help and be a giver on 5 minutes a week.
- Using Givitas, you don’t have to know who to ask, and everyone has equal access to mentors and experts.
- Givitas is a collection of people who have been successful doing whatever it is you’re trying to do. Ask for their advice, and get ahead in your career.
- Get access to a unique network of generous, active, engaged professionals you can’t find anywhere else.
- Get diverse, unbiased opinions that will make your work smarter and more informed.
How Givitas Works
“No question is a bad question.”
- Log in to Givitas for Leaders and ask for help, provide help, search a repository of institutional knowledge, collaborate, and connect in less than 5 minutes a day
- Asking for help is incredibly easy, reducing stigmas and barriers, and you don’t have to know who to ask
- Providing help is quick and efficient, with robust notifications and engagement tools to notify you when someone needs help
- Givitas provides guidance on making requests and responses, with educational prompts that assist you in crafting a productive request
- Givitas creates and records organizational memory developing a valuable asset for future searches
Givitas is Easy to Use on Web or Mobile
Testimonials
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Service Delivery Center Employee
“I regularly received offers for all of my requests; the notifications and daily digest were also really helpful.”
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Control Chaos
"Givitas by Give and Take is the web platform that takes the Reciprocity Ring concept to the next level."
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Contributing editor, Inc.
"Engagement comes from being in an environment where you build relationships with the company and the team, where you feel trusted, where you're getting the support you need."
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Managing Partner, Zingerman's
"[Givitas] is a tool that helps build bridges across an organization and makes it easier for both newcomers and senior leaders to ask for--and offer--help."
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Global IT Executive
“Collaboration is the key, and Givitas makes it easy. It allowed me to reach out and connect with colleagues around the world.”
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"Givitas gives me an opportunity to have some unusual requests granted that I wouldn't elsewhere. It feels productive and satisfying. I feel smarter and more resourceful."
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"The simplicity of sharing, helping, and learning in a fairly closed group is liberating and profound."
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Bestselling author of Give and Take
"The hallmark of any great work culture is that people care as much about each other’s success as their own. Many organizations never reach that level of 'productive generosity’, and it’s not because people aren’t willing to give. It’s because they’re afraid to ask for help. Givitas reduces the stigma of asking for help and enables people to give in five minutes a day.“
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"Givitas can make asking for and getting help from other employees simple -- which can make your business a lot more efficient and effective."
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University of Michigan
"Asking for help at work is absolutely essential to a productive, successful, and fulfilling life. Givitas makes asking for help easy.
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Zingerman's
“Givitas helps build bridges across an organization and makes it easier for both newcomers and senior leaders to ask for and offer help!”
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"Collaboration is the key, and Givitas makes it easy. It allowed me to reach out and connect with colleagues around the world. I received support for my questions and I was also happy to help others providing my knowledge or providing proper contact within our organization."
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Intertek
"One of the more powerful ways to learn and grow into your career is to feel comfortable asking for help. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness or of lack of work ethic, it's a sign of strength and confidence."
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“Givitas can make asking for and getting help from other employees simple – which can make your business a lot more efficient and effective.”
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"A few minutes in Givitas saved me 5-10 hours of research, and it was awesome connecting with new people who have shared interests."
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Rotman School of Management
"We use Givitas with our students as a follow-up to the Reciprocity Ring. We have seen students access valuable resources through the platform, build community, and in the process learn about the power of giving for networking.”
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International Technology Company
“I like that people in our [Givitas] community come from different diverse fields and backgrounds. I use Givitas when a challenge is new to me, and there's a feeling of satisfaction whenever I provide real help to someone else.”
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"I made a nice connection with a like-minded individual!"
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The idea of a platform just for exchanging help is simple but brilliant."
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"I am learning how to seek help without shame. Giving help comes much easier to me naturally, but asking for help is hard. I am learning everyday on this platform. Thank you Givitas."
